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31. iii. CATALINA,4 bap. Oct. 21, 1691 ; m. June 3, 1722, PETRUS MARS- CHALK of New York, son of Andries Marschalk and Elizabeth Van Gelder ; he was bap. Feb. 19, 1696. They had issue : Andries, bap. March 24, 1723 ; Isaac, bap. July 18, 1725 ; Sara, bap. Aug. 17, 1729 ; and Elizabeth, bap. Aug. 23, 1730.
32. iv. ISAAC, JR.,4 bap. Oct. 1, 1693 ; m. May 13, 1716, Anna Van Noortstrant of New York, prob. a dau. of Jacob Van Noortstrant and Annetje Croesvelt, who was bap. Feb. 12, 1696. They had issue : I. Isaac, bap. June 19, 1717 ; 2. Anna, bap. Sept. 23, 1719 ; and Sara,“ bap. April 25, 1722.
33. v. JACOB,4 bap. July 14, 1695 ; m. Dec. 7, 1717, Engeltje (Angelina) Pels, of New York, dau. of Evert Pels and Grietje (Margaret) Melcherts
* For Marriages and Baptisms in the Church at Hackensack, I am indebted to the courtesy of James W. Quackenbush, Esq., of that place.
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Van Deurse (Van Deusen) ; she was bap. July 25, 1697. He was a Cord- wainer and Tanner in New York, and died in October, 1754, leaving his wife, son Evert, and dau. Elizabeth surviving him. He had issue : 1. Mar- grietje, bap. Feb. 24, 1721 ; m. July 20, 1740, Hans (Johannes) Hansen, Jr. ; 2. Isaac,' bap. July 25, 1725, d. young ; 3. Sara,6 bap. July 23, 1727, d. young ; 4. Betje® (Elizabeth), bap. March 18, 1733 ; and 5. Evert,6 bap. Jan. 11, 1738.
34. vi. JOHANNES,4 bap. April 11, 1697 ; died unmarried.
35. vii. ELIZABETH,4 bap. July 16, 1699 ; died young.
36. viii. PETRUS,4 bap. June 19, 1700 ; m. Dec. 6, 1724, Margrietje Blom, dau. of Jacob Blom and Mayke Janse Bosch (Bos), of New York. She was bap. Nov. 4, 1702. They had issue bap. in the Dutch Church in New York : 1. Maria, bap. Sept. 1, 1725 ; 2. Isaac, bap. Sept. 4, 1726 ; 3. Jacob, bap. June 23, 1728 ; 4. Abraham, bap. Feb. 23, 1733 ; 5. Maria,5 bap. Jan. 22, 1735 ; and 6. Sara, bap. Sept. 24, 1738.
37. ix. ELIZABETH,' bap. Aug. 12, 1702 ; died unmarried.
38. x. ABRAHAM4 (39), bap. Aug. 19, 1705.
39. ABRAHAM KIP4 (38), bap. Aug. 19, 1705 ; m. Feb. 13, 1729, Maria (Mary) Van den Berg, of New York, dau. of Huybert Gerritzen Van den Berg* and Maria Lansing ; she was bap. Feb. 27, 1709. He was a Cooper, and died in New York about 1750, leaving his wife surviving. Her will is dated July 19, 1765, and proved Jan. 5, 1785. In it she is described as Mary Kip, of the City of New York, widow of Abraham Kip, late of the City of New York, Cooper, deceased, and one of the daughters of Huybert Van den Berg, late of the said city, Cartman, deceased. She bequeaths her estate to her daughter Mary, and after her death directs it to be divided equally among her three other children, to wit : Sarah, wife of Gerrit Harsen ; Abraham Kip, and Gerrit Kip. Appoints her son-in-law, Gerrit Harsen, of said city, Baker, her son, Abraham Kip, of said city, Painter, and her friend, Mr. Nathaniel Mckinley, of said city, executors. Abraham Kip and his wife Maria Van den Berg had issue :
40. i. ISAAC, bap. June 29, 1729; died young.
41. ii. ISAAC,5 bap. Feb. 14, 1731 ; died young.
42. iii. HUBERT,6 bap. Sept. 30, 1733 ; died unmarried.
43. iv. ISAAC," bap. March 23, 1735 ; died young.
44. v. SARA," bap. Feb. 27, 1736 ; m. Nov. 28, 1757, GERRIT HARSEN, Bake rof New York.
45. vi. MARYTJE,5 bap. Jan. 1, 1738 ; died unmarried.
* HUYBERT GERRITSZEN (VAN DEN BERG) and his wife Maria Lansing came from Albany, and joined the Dutch Church in New York, Dec. 2, 1696. He was probably a brother of Barent Gerritse Van den Berg of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, in 1687, and perhaps the son of Gerrit Van den Bergh, of Albany, 1663. His wife was a dau. of Hendrick Lansing and Elizabeth Caspers, of Albany. They were married at Albany, Dec. 20, 1693, and had dau. Lysbeth bap. there July 29, 1694. (See Pearson's First Settlers of Albany, pp. 53 and 70.) She is probably the Elizabeth Van den Berg who married in New York, Feb. 22, 1713, Johannes Ostrander. Their children bap. in New York were :
I. Theuntie Van den Berg, bap. Nov. 17, 1695.
2. Gerretje Van den Berg, bap. June 16, 1697 : died young.
3. Gerretje Van den Berg, bap. Jan. 11, 1699 ; m. Aug. 8, 1718, Pieter Van der Lyn, and had Elizabeth bap. Sept 2, 1719.
4. Gerrit Van den Berg, bap. Aug. 31, 1701 ; died young.
5. Gerardus Van den Berg, bap. April 9, 1704.
6. Hendrikus Van den Berg, bap. Nov. 13, 1706.
7. Marytje (Maria) Van den Berg, bap. Feb. 27, 1709 ; m. Abraham Kip as noticed in the text.
8. Ariaantje Van den Berg, bap. Dec. 26, 1710 ; died young.
9. Ariaantje Van den Berg, bap. July 27, 1712.
10, Gerrit Van den Berg, bap. Nov. 14, 1714.
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46. vii. ISAAC,5 bap. May 4, 1740 ; died unmarried.
47. viii. ELIZABETH,5 bap. Feb. 7, 1742 ; died unmarried.
48. ix. ABRAHAM,5 bap. May 27, 1744.
49. x. GERRIT5 (50), born May 11, bap. May 18, 1746.
50. GERRIT KIP5 (49), born May 11, bap. May 18, 1746 ; m. Feb. 12, 1768, Ellenor or Nelletje Brouwer. She was a daughter of Johannes Brouwer* and Susanna Druljet (Droljitt, Droljet, Driljet, Draljet, Deroill- het), and born in New York, June 9, bap. June 12, 1745. They had issue.
51. i. ABRAHAM6 (56), bap. June 2, 1768.
52. ii. ELIZABET DRULJET,6 bap. Aug. 12, 1770 ; m. RICHARD WILKIN- SON, and had 1. Ellenor, d. s. p. ; 2. Eliza, m. William Gallaer ; 3. Maria, mn. John Brown ; 4. Rachel ; 5. Susan, d. s. p. ; and 6. Sarah d. s. p.
53. iii. GERRIT,6 bap. July 19, 1772 ; m. Ann Leech, and had I. Jane ;? 2. John ;7 3. Ellenor,7 m. Asa Wells ; and Mary Ann,7 m. David Fulker- son.
54. iv. JOHN6, bap. Sept. 18, 1774 ; died unmarried.
55. v. HUBERT6, born 1777 (?) ; died unmarried.
56. ABRAHAM KIP6 (51), bap. June 2, 1768 ; m. 1789, Rachel Blank. He was a mason and bricklayer in the city of New York, where he died early in 1797. His wife was a descendant in the sixth generation, of Jeuriaen (George) Blank, Goldsmith, of New Amsterdam, who came to New Neth- erland with his wife Tryntje Claes, prior to 1643. She married second in 1798, PETER NAYLORt, bricklayer, of New York, the son of Richard Naylor of England. He died June 13, 1818; she died March 5, 1836. Abraham Kip and Rachel Blank had issue.
57. i. RACHEL?, born May 11, 1790 ; m. Feb. 8, 1806, JAMES LYNCH, Hairdresser. He was born Dec. 5, 1781, in Monmouth Co., N, J., but re-
* JOHANNES BROUWER (Brower), was a great-grandson of Adam Brouwer, from Ceulen, who married in New Amsterdam, March 19, 1645, Magdalena Verdon. Adam Brouwer was an early settler in Brooklyn, Long Island. and in 1661, was the owner, with Isaac De Forrest, of the old Gowanus Mill, on the Gowanus Creek, later known as Freeke's Mill, supposed to be the first erected on Long Island. ( Brooklyn Manual, 1863, p. 375.) In his will, dated Jan. 22, 169}{, proved March 21, 1692, he is styled Adam Brouwer, Berk- hoven, inhabitant of the town of Brookland. He left surviving him his wife, Magdalena, and the following named children : Pieter ; Matthew ; William ; Maria ; Aeltje ; Fytje ; Jacob2 ; Helena : Adam ; Abra- ham ; Anna ; Sarah; Nicholas, and Rachel. Jacob,2 son of Adam Brouwer, ' born at Gowanus, married at Flatbush, Jan. 7, 1682, Anetje, dau. of William Bogardus, and Wyntie Sybrants. Their marriage also appears in the Dutch Church records of New York, under date Feb. 4, 1682. They had bap. in Brooklyn, Sybrant (?) ; Jacob,3 Nov. 30, 1684 ; Willem, May 8, 1687; Everardus, Dec. 8. 1689; Elisabet, Nov. 15. 1694 : Adam, March 29, 1696, and baptized in the Dutch Church in New York, Wyntje, Oct. 1, 1701, and Magdalena, March 8, 1704. Jacob,3 bap. Nov. 30, 1684, son of Jacob Brouwer," married Oct 28, 1709, Pieternella De La Montagne, of New York, dau. of Jan de La Montagne and Annetie Josephs Waldron. They had issue ; Jacob, bap. in Brooklyn, Sept. 24, 1710, and the following bap. in New York : Johannes, 4 March 19, 1712 ; Abraham, Feb. 6, 1717 : Antje, March 13, 1720 ; Adam, Feb. 14, 1722, and Antje, March 30, 1726.
JOHANNES BROUWER, 4 bap. March 19, 1712, son of Jacob." married Oct. 9, 1734, Susanna Deroillhet (Druljet), probably the dau. of Paulus and Susanna Druljet. (The latter was a widow Sept. 5, 1735.) The tradition in the Kip family is, that Susanna, wife of Johannes Brouwer, 4 was a French woman. They had bap. in New York the following named children : Susanna, bap. Sep. 5. 1735; Annetje, bap. Feb. 8, 1738 ; Jacob, bap. March 26, 1740; Antje, bap. Nov. 7, 1742 ; Nelletje or Ellenor, born June 9, bap. June 12, 1745 ; m. Gerrit Kip, as noticed in the text ; and Johannes, bap. Dec. 2, 1747.
+ PETER NAYLOR and Rachel Blank had issue :
I. Richard Naylor, born Feb. 8, 1799; died May 11, 1829, unmarried.
2. Peter Naylor, born Feb. 9. 1801 ; m. Dec. 23, 1823. Margaret N. Carmer, of New York.
3. Eliza Ann Naylor, born Nov. 4, 1803 ; died Feb. 2, 1807.
4. John Naylor, born Dec. 19, 1806 ; m. Jan. 6, 1829, Eliza Higbee.
5. Matilda Naylor, born June 17, 1809 ; died Dec. 24, 1812.
6. Alexander Naylor, born July 2, 1812 ; died March 10, 1813.
7. Elmira Naylor, born Nov. 28, 1814 ; m. Nov. 28, 1831, Jonathan Freeman Morgan. of New York,
. 8. Joseph Naylor, born Feb. 6, 1816; m. Aug. 10, 1836, Eliza Osborn.
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sided nearly all his life in New York ; he died in Brooklyn, March 20, 1857 ; she died in Brooklyn, Jan. 8, 1852. They had issue :
I. ELLEN LYNCH, born May 23, 1808 ; died Sept. 17, 1809.
2. RACHEL LYNCH, born April 17, 1810 ; died Aug. 27, 1811.
3. SARAH LYNCH, born March 8, 1812 ; m. June 25, 1831, William Simmons, of Mexico ; she m. 2ª -- Palmer, and died Aug. 5, 1854.
4. JAMES LYNCH, born Dec. 23, 1813 ; m. Nov. 23, 1835, Olevia Ann Marsac, dau. of Michael and Rachael (Jennings) Marsac ; she was born on Staten Island, Nov. 23, 1810; he died in 1864, at Governor's Island, while in the U. S. service. Issue : I. Sarah Olevia, born Aug. 23, 1836 ; died Feb. 20, 1849; 2. Mary Frances, born Oct. 24, 1839 ; m. July 29, 1868, William H. son of Charles H. Close ; 3. Eliza Cornelia, born Jan. 5, 1849 ; died May 30, 1849.
5. WASHINGTON LYNCH, born March 3, 1816 ; m. Ist June 4, 1838, Maria Davenport, of New York ; m. 2ª -- , at St. Louis ; he was killed by falling from the roof of a building at St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 19, 1861.
6. ANN ELIZA LYNCH, born March 23, 1818 ; m. June 12, 1839, Burdett E. P. Randolph, of Brooklyn, L. I.
7. MATILDA LYNCH, born Jan. 12, 1820; m. Feb. 28, 1839, Franklin Laughlin, of New York.
8. MARY VAN ANTWERP LYNCH, born Dec. 13, 1821 ; m. Sept. 3, 1839, Charles Hawley Close, son of Henry and Arney (Reynolds) Close ; he was born August 5, 1819, at Stamford, Ct., but resided from his boyhood in New York City. He was prominently connected for thirty-five years with the drug trade in New York, and was for many years a member of the firm of M. Ward, Close & Co. He died in Brooklyn, Dec. 7, 1873. She resides, 1877, in New York. Issue : I. Em- ma Louisa, born Aug. 2, 1840 ; m. Jan. 19, 1860, Charles Peter Schuyler, Broker, of New York, son of Philip M. Schuyler, of Boonville, Oneida Co., N. Y. He died in New York City, Oct. 10, 1874. They had issue : I. Mary V. Schuyler, born in Harlem, N. Y., Dec. 23, 1861. 2. Arney Amelia, born July 21, 1842 ; m. May 13, 1863, Louis Frank- lin Georger, Furrier, of New York, son of Louis F. and Emily (Gunther) Georger. He was born in New York, April 26, 1841. . They had issue (all born in New York) : Francis Frederick Georger, born April 6, 1865 ; Arney Amelia Georger, born May 17, 1870 ; died March 14, 1871 ; and Julia Helene Georger, born July 25, 1872. 3. William Henry, born March 29, 1844; m. July 29, 1868, Mary Frances, dau. of James and Olevia Ann (Marsac) Lynch. They had issue : Harry Albert Close, born on Staten Island, July 12, 1869 ; died same place, Aug. 13, 1870 ; Louis Franklin Close, born in Brooklyn, June 8, 1871; and Emma Olevia Close, born in Brooklyn, Aug. 23, 1873. 4. Charles Augustus, born Feb. 4, 1846 ; m. Nov. 15, 1874, Lottie Marshall. They had issue: Edith Lottie Close, born on Staten Island, Oct. 2, 1876. 5. Mary Frances, born Dec.
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26, 1847; m. Feb. 13, 1868, Edwin Ruthven Purple .* Lawyer, of California, Arizona, Utah, Montana, and New York, son of Lyman Smith and Minerva (Sheffield) Purple. He was born in Sherburne, Chenango Co., N.Y., June 30, 1831. They had issue (all born in New York City) : Mary V. Pur- ple, born April 9, 1869 ; died April 11, 1869 ; Mary Close Purple, born May 30, 1870 ; Frances Minerva and Amelia Georger Purple, twins, born Sept. 29, 1872 ; and Sarah Shef- field Purple, born May 30, 1875; died July 5, 1876. 6. James Wood, born Sept. 30, 1850 ; died Feb. 22, 1859. 7. Walter McDougall, born July 19, 1852 ; m. March 17, 1874, Matilda Marsac. They had issue : Mary V. Close, born in New York, Feb. 10, 1875.
9. ELIZABETH LYNCH, born March 6, 1823 ; m. Nov. 12, 1843, John Bishop, of Brooklyn ; she died Oct. 4, 1854.
IO. ELIAS LYNCH, born May 26, 1827 ; he has been thrice mar- ried ; no further particulars.
II. MARGARET LYNCH, born Dec. 26, 1833 ; died Sept. 13, 1837. 58. ii. THOMAS HENDERSON,7 born June 13, 1792 ; m. Jan. 12, 1817, Ann Ross, and had issue: Abraham ;8 Jane ;8 Thomas ;8 Mary ;8 and Sarah Ann.8
59. iii. SARAH,7 born June 23, 1794; m. June 3, 1809, JOHN GALLA- HER, and had issue : Margaret ; Abraham ; George ; Alexander ; Wil- liam W. ; Rachel; Sarah ; John ; Eliza ; Ruth ; Jane ; Peter ; and Al- mira.
60. iv. JAMES,7 born Nov. 23, 1796 ; died in 1819, unmarried.
* EDWARD PURPLE1, the common ancestor of the family bearing his name in this country, was admitted an inhabitant of the town of Haddam, Ct., in May, 1674. It is probable that he was a descendant of Christopher Purple, who purchased land in Essex County, England, in 1580, and died there about 1605, leaving a son Christopher, but the connection has not yet been clearly traced. It is supposed that the first Christopher Purple was a native of France, from which country he fled to England at the time of the mas- sacre of St. Bartholomew.
Edward Purple1 was a Farmer, or as described in an old deed still extant, a Husbandman, and married, 1675, at Haddam, Hannah, daughter of Nicholas Ackley, one of the original proprietors of that town, and a resident, 1638-39, of Hartford. He died at Haddam, Jan. 4, 1719-20, leaving his wife surviving and three sons, Edward2, John and Richard.
EDWARD PURPLE2, born about 1676, died about 1727, married Mary -, and had Edward3 and Mary, twins, born March 28, 1713 ; Elias, born March 27, 1716 ; and John, born June 14, 1718.
EDWARD PURPLE3, born March 28, 1713. In early life he removed from Haddam to Middletown, Ct., where he married, 1740, Ruth Hollister, of Glastenbury. He was an active business man, and though com- paratively young at the time of his decease, had accumulated a large amount of property, and was regarded wealthy. He died in August, 1752, and his widow married, September 29, 1757, Nathaniel Spencer, of Middletown. His children were Ruth, born August 1, 1741 ; Mary, born July 19, 1743 ; Edward4, born March 18, 1745 ; Dorothy, born May 9, 1747 ; Ezra, born January 18, 1749 ; Josiah, born Dec. 4, 1750.
EDWARD PURPLE4, born March 18, 1745, a Farmer, married in 1768, Mary Hodge. He died August, 1794. His widow married, December 31, 1795, Stephen Knowlton. The children of Edward Purple and Mary Hodge were Edward, born August 14, 1769 ; Polly, born May 25, 1771 ; Ansel5, born 1773 ; Samuel, born May 28, 1784 ; Ruth, baptized July 9, 1784 ; Deborah, born April 25, 1788 ; Statira, born 1790 ; Ann, born March 30, 1793.
ANSEL PURPLE", born in Middle Haddam, Ct., 1773. He was a Farmer, and removed in 1797 to Whites- town, N. Y., and subsequently to Otsego County, where he married, Feb. 19, 1798, Dolly, daughter of Dr. Ephriam Smith and his wife Abigail Higgins. He died while on a visit to Middle Haddam, November 16, 1808. His widow married, October 5, 1809, Elisha Harris, and removed to Chenango Co., N. Y., and afterwards to Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, where she died March 25, 1857. Their children were Lyman Smith6, born in Burlington, Otsego Co., N. Y., Jan. 19, 1799 ; Ansel, Lavina, and Elisha.
LYMAN SMITH PURPLE6, born in Burlington, Jan. 19, 1799. Removed when young with his mother to Chenango Co., N. Y., where he married, January 27, 1820, Minerva, daughter of Dr. James [Fones] Shef- field and his wife Sarah Calkins. She was born in Northumberland, Washington Co., N. Y., July 4, 1801, and died in the City of New York March 27, 1868. He was a Tanner, Currier, and Shoemaker, and located after his marriage in the town of Lebanon, Madison Co., N. Y., and a few years after removed to the town of Sherburne, Chenango Co., N. Y. He was for many years Deacon of the Baptist Church in Earlville, N. Y., was a man of exemplary piety and singularly pure and upright in all the relations of life. He died at Earlville, May 7, 1839. Their children were : 1, Samuel Smith, born in Lebanon, June 24, 1822, a Physician for the past thirty-three years in the City of New York, and unmarried. 2, Ansel Sheffield, born in Lebanon, Nov. 15, 1825, a Farmer, and after 1846 a resident of Troy, Bradford Co., Penn., where he married Sept. 3, 1846, Mary E., daughter of Aaron Baldwin and Harriet (Lawson) his wife. He died in the U. S. Vol- unteer Service at Bardstown, Ky., March 4, 1862. 3, Edwin Ruthven7, born and married as noticed in the text.
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On page 47, it is stated that the last mention found of HENDRICK KIP1, SENIOR, is April 19, 1665. It is not improbable that he is the Hen- drick Kip, Sen', whose name appears in a Tax List made in New York, on the 10th of November, 1676, for the purpose of defraying the charges in building the New Dock, and paying the city debts, etc. This List will be found on page 36, Vol. ii. of the N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Record, to which the reader is referred.
On the same page the statement is made, that perhaps Kippenburg was identical with Incleuburg, or Fire Beacon Hill, near 36th Street and Fourth Avenue, at the period referred to. This part of the Island was called Kipsborough in 1746, which gives additional warrant for the belief that the ancient Kippenburg was in the vicinity of the old Kip farm, from which the name was probably derived. See extract from the N. Y. Weekly Post Boy, in Valentine's Manual for 1865, p. 795.
HENDRICK KIP, JR2, noticed on page 56, made an affidavit, August 1, 1662, while on the Delaware, in which he says he was then "about 29 years old." This gives the date of his birth in Amsterdam about the year 1633. See Doc. Rel. to Colonial History of New York, Vol. 12, p. 401.
MEYER-MYER-MYERS-MEIR.
THE name of Meyers (or Myer) is a very ancient and common one both in Germany and Holland, and is supposed to take its derivation from Meyer, a country Mayor, or Sheriff, sometimes, though rarely, translated Farmer ; Meyery, a Manor, Mayoralty, or Lordship ; or, perhaps, from Meir, a lake. Its exact designation among the individuals here given, we have not more definitely attempted to trace. The orthography varies in the same family, but the most common form of the name as it appears in the records is MEYER and MYER. There were four persons,* early resi- dents of New Amsterdam, who do not appear to have been related to each other, but from whom sprung four distinct lines of this family in New York. These were JIL'LIS (or GILLIS) PIETERSZEN [MEYER], JAN DIRCKSZEN MEYER, MARTEN JANSZEN MEYER, and ADOLF MEYER, whom we propose to notice briefly in the order of their names, as mentioned.
I. JILLIS (or GILLIS) PIETERSZEN [MEYER'], commonly called Jillis Pieterszen Van der Gouw, or Van der Gouda-the ancient town of Gouda, or Tergouw, in Holland, having been the place of his nativity- was a house-carpenter, and came to New Amsterdam prior to 1638, and probably as early as 1633, in company with Director General Van Twiller. On the 16th of April, 1639, then aged 27 years, in company with Jacob Stoffelsen and Tymen Janszen, he makes declaration as to the condition of the Fort, Church, Mills, and other public property, at the time of Governor Kieft's arrival in New Amsterdam.t On the 3ª of June, 1638, he was appointed Master Carpenter at Fort Orange ¿ (Albany), but probably did not long reside there. He married at New Amsterdam, July 6, 1642; ELSJE HENDRICKS, born in Amsterdam, dau. of Hendrick Janszen Snyder -otherwise, Hendrick Janszen, the tailor-and his wife, Geertje Scheer- burch. On the 25th of October, 1653, he obtained a patent for a house
* NICHOLAS MEYER, who m. in 1655, Lydia Van Dyck, was the ancestor of the DE MEYER family, of whom hereafter.
+ Coll. New York Hist. Society, vol. I (New Series), p. 279.
# Cal. N. Y. Hist. MSS. Dutch, p. 62.
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and lot in Beverwyck * (Albany), and perhaps lived there during the last years of his life. It does not appear that he was himself known by the name of Meyer, his children having adopted that as their family name, for reasons at present unascertained. His children were baptized in New Amsterdam, but probably all of them who reached years of maturity were married at Beverwyck. His residence in New Amsterdam, according to Mr. Valentine, was on the site of the present Wall Street, his house front- ing the public road running along the East River, now Pearl Street. He deceased prior to 1656, and the following year his heirs sold the property above mentioned to the city, the lot then becoming a part of the public street, now Wall Street. He owned another house and lot in Pearl Street, near the Fort, a two-thirds interest in which, owned by his heirs, Captain Hans Hendrickse and Johannes Wendel, of Albany, was con- veyed by them, July 25, 1676, to his son, Hendrick Jillise Meyer ; the other third part belonging to said Hendrick Jillise, " as his inheritance of the third part of all the effects of Gillis Pieterse, deceased, according to the will."¿ The division of this property, as above set forth, indicates that only three of his children survived him. Issue :
2. i. EVA JILLISE MEYER2, bap. April 26, 1643 ; m. Capt. HANS HEN- DRICKSE, an early resident and trader at Beverwyck. His descendants assumed the surname of HANSEN. He made his will Feb. 12, 1692, and was deceased in 1697, leaving the following named children : Hendrick ; Mar- gareta, m. Jan. 13, 1692, Frederick Harmense Visscher, of Albany, and died Aug. 30, 1701 ; Johannes, and Elsje.§
3. ii. PIETER JILLISE MEYER2, bap. Nov. 20, 1644 ; probably died young.
4. iii. TRYNTJE JILLISE MEYER,2 bap. April 22, 1647 ; died young.
5. iv. TRYNTJE JILLISE MEYER,2 bap. July 4, 1648 ; probably died young.
6. v. HENDRICK JILLISE MEYER,2 bap. March 6, 1650. He joined the Dutch Church, in New York, Feb. 28, 1672; m., 1671, probably at Albany, ELSJE CLAES ROOSEVELT, dau. of Claes Martenszen Van Rosen- velt [Roosevelt] and his wife, Jannetje Samuels, or Thomas. (Both names are given in the baptismal record of their children.) She was bap. Feb. II, 1652. In 1686 they resided in Pearl, near the present Whitehall Street, in New York. He was a cordwainer, and, in 1699-1700-1, an Assistant Alderman from the South Ward. In 1703 his family consisted of I male, I female, and 3 children. Issue :
I. ELSJE,3 bap. Sept. 15, 1672 ; died young.
2. JANNETIE,3 bap. Sept. 19, 1674 ; m. May 27, 1701, ABRAHAM PROVOOST, from Albany. For a further account of this fam- ily, see vol. vi., page 20, of the N. Y. G. AND B. RECORD.
3. ELSJE,3 bap. March 12, 1677 ; m. Oct. 30, 1698, BERNARDUS SMITH, from Bushwick, L. I., for many years a resident of New York. She was his first wife, and died in 1704 ; he m., second, June 30, 1705, Anna Colevelt, widow of Laurence Hedding.
* O'Callaghan's Hist. of New Netherland, vol. 2, p. 588.
+ Valentine's History of New York, p. 119.
# Pearson's Early Records of Albany, p. 130.
§ Pearson's First Settlers of Albany, pp. 59-144.
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4. MARRITIE,3 bap. June 25, 1679 ; m. April 21, 1700, HENDRICK VAN DER HEUL. See page 49.
5. RACHEL,3 bap. March 1, 1684.
6. CATHARINA,3 bap. June 13, 1686 ; m. Dec. 25, 1706, HAR- MANUS RUTGERS,* from Albany. He was a prominent brewer in New York city, and died there Aug. 9, 1753. His wife, Catharina Meyer, died Feb. 28, 1737. He m., second, at Hackensack, N. J., Sept. 17, 1739, Margaret De Foreest, whom he survived, and by whom had no issue.
7. HENDRICK,3 bap. Nov. 4, 1688. (Perhaps the Hendrick Meyer who m. at Hackensack, N. J., June 24, 1716, Elsie de Vouw.) (?)
8. JOHANNES,3 bap. May 15, 1692. (No further account.)
7. vi. MARIA JILLISE MEYER,2 bap. Jan. 21, 1652 ; m. Capt. JOHANNES WENDELL, of Albany. (See Pearson's First Settlers of Albany, p. 148, and Genealogy of the Brattle Family, p. 39.)
I. JAN DIRCKSZEN MEYER and his wife, TRYNTJE ANDRIESSE GREVEN- RAET, were residing in New Amsterdam prior to 1652, but the time of their arrival here is unknown. Their names are recorded in the list of Old Members of the Dutch Church, many of whom, it is certain, were settled here before 1649. There is reason to believe that he was by trade a Paint- er, and that he is the Jan Dirckszen who was admitted to the rights of a small burgher April 14, 1657. Mr. Valentine estimates his wealth, at the final cession of New York to the English in 1674, at $2,000. He then resided in the present Bridge Street, but in 1686 was living in Stone Street, between Whitehall and Broad. Tryntje or Catharine Grevenraet, his first wife, was, as her name indicates, the daughter of Andries, and probably a sister of Isaac, Metje + and Lysbeth Grevenraet, the latter of whom was the
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